it's not out to the. market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy there's a report on. the grim search goes on the bodies of one hundred victims including many children have now been recovered following russia's worst voting disaster. washington's missile shield over your chips away at relations with moscow as the u.s. stands accused of taking advantage of and i saw that sentiment to secure future bases and you are of. the asian giants competition india's huge draw material exports to china keeps the money rolling in but new delhi is more into making the country depend on its fast growing neighbor.

watching r.t. coming to life from moscow was me wearing a joshua welcome to the program one hundred people are now officially confirmed dead following the sinking of a pleasure boat on the volga river and what is russia's worst bowling disaster eighteen of the bodies recovered so far are children who've been enjoying a day out with their families on the bulgaria went down in just a matter of minutes on sunday tom barton is following the search operation. we've been talking to some of the recovery authority as the emergencies ministry divers that have been going out hour after hour to a platform above the sunken bowl daria three kilometers out from the bank in the volga river they say and the emergencies ministry say they're going to try and finish the recovery of the bodies by the end of today that's obviously

a very tricky process it's taken them a long time so far divers have had to be going inside the rooms inside the boat they've had to be working steadily through those in teams some divers going ahead to try and clear any wreckage tables and things that have fallen over as the boats as the boats sunk in any damage that may have happened and other divers then going in and extracting the parties and bringing them to the surface so a very difficult process and also a very harrowing one for the relatives and survivors that have remained on the banks i'm sure you can see but behind me all the flowers the candles and particularly the amount of cuddly toys that have been put against the wall of the riverboat station here in khazan just upstream from where the ball carrier sank this was to be its stopping point after its pleasure cruise up the volga hundreds of people keep streaming here to lay flowers and to try and remember the

people who died in that tragedy for more on the background of the tragedy how it happened and its effects will go to my report. this is the happy scene that should have been this ship is designed almost identical to the bulgaria this room almost identical to the one that children on that ship played in but for whatever reason their fate was very different. as crowds gathered in remembrance of those killed by the sinking of the volga pleasure boat it was the younger victims that seem to cast the longest shadow. these schoolgirls that lost one of their classmates. the most we started together

for a year she never had arguments with anyone she was a very kind girl and was always ready to help. as divers reached the playroom of one of the ball carriers upper decks they found the bodies of the children that had gathered there just before the boat sunk. as them at once inside the boat the bodies were everywhere in the corridors and cabins and most of them are wearing the life rafts divers now have the awful task of bringing the bodies to the surface those left behind can only wonder at how fast their families were torn apart. our colleague was on guard ship should mention a cruise together with her family husband five year old son and also she was pregnant and was to deliver her second baby in august has not found yet only her husband managed to survive she and her son died. and for those children

left suddenly without parents the terrible truth they may not be able to comprehend for years she lost her mother and father we're all but will have to live after and she's only one and a half years old knowledge that you tell her you know we can't she wouldn't understand but there is much that people don't understand about this disaster reports about the ship's engines failing about blocked emergency exits and the electricity failure that stopped any s.o.s. or evacuation instructions going out criminal. cases have been opened into why two ships passing straight after the sinking didn't stop to pick up a single person and two to why the aging vessel was allowed to sail in the first place but for those who have lost loved ones the case will never be closed tom watson. it was hard to come here live from moscow and

still have three this hour deciding his fate with the team covering the london high court session which will rule whether the extradition to sweden we can expound or julian signs will go ahead. in the fury all over the phone hacking scandal gripping britain goes international as the us senate takes aim at rupert murdoch's media empire. washington's plans missile shield over europe has been labeled as a major errors in behind a wide in chasm in russian american relations by foreign minister sergey lavrov the u.s. has brushed off moscow's concerns over the project maintaining the shields only to protect against attacks from rogue states but some say it's taking advantage of post soviet did it is to see it through his gun it's to count reports. u.s. missile defense plans in europe are of course out for discussion here in washington and foreign minister lavrov said russia for him legally binding guarantees that the european missile defense project will not threaten russia's security there have

been words before washington has many times said that the system would not be against russia but moscow needs to have it on paper some analyst explained that this urge that russia has been getting everything on paper with promises in the past that were not fulfilled for example when the soviet union collapsed russia was assured that nato would not be expanding towards these borders but he did it can be continued recruiting new members of the bottom line is words are good but words in a legally binding agreement are that our foreign minister lavrov said that's probably the most irritating issue in the relations between the two countries and there is a huge desire to live it behind and to rather turn it into an area of cooperation for some of the ground that being created on the basis of. the should the design of missile defense which was not accepted but is a reasonable way to respond to what is received as being the purpose of the interests of system so we want to stick to the original that there will be

no parts of the system which would create the risks for the strategic stability and for them but then show the strategic stability and names through the jugular symbols of the participants of the system russia has offered building the missile shield in europe together but that offer was turned down nato says russia can participate but it can't be a joint project because russia is not part of nato through that moscow says if that's the case let's bring our relations on agreements not just words the shield itself according to the state department will have the whole of europe covered my colleague alex a euro to romania where the u.s. plans to build the radar and found out what it means for the local population take a listen to the voice. the romanian village of their cell still cannot believe his luck after washington picked this place in romania's poorest region to locate a new regular base locals have been all smiles about hypothetical investment of the

civil war when we first heard that the us would build a retard we were a little bit scared police so we were informed that having this peace with mean better infrastructure and possibly jobs for us locals. to salute was deserted for a long time. it will have a second chance. proposed to consist of radio facilities and interceptor rockets it is scheduled to be built by twenty fifteen and will become instrumental in president obama's european anti-missile defense shield in the one nine hundred fifty s. an airbase in the town of davis cell in romania was used by the soviet forces now with washington's plans to place the raiders station here locals have a job that should booker us change his foreign policy again the place will be occupied by the chinese similar plans were no joke for some in other european countries thousands in the czech republic and poland protested against the

initiative to have military bases on their soil with mixed results while the first line of interceptor missiles was eventually placed in poland the czechs suddenly pulled out of the anti-missile defense while in romania there have been no demonstrations like that. there is a historical fact that makes one of the most problematic and countries in the world it has been explained by our ancestors the better things and the commies came from the east everybody was expecting the american to rebalance the whole thing so there is this sentiment and this feeling that. the presence of the us is contra balance and specifically u.s. is gone from ellen's. presence or. of russia in the region if there is the real case then what security with this new shield provide and most importantly difference from whom not even two years since barack obama restructured the bush era european shield scheme moskos delight over the us

president's move was replaced by feelings of discontent and concern. with worry that washington does something before informing us of these actions it is unclear what exactly they are creating as soon as we understand that this is them won't be used against russia when we will have legally by. despite being described as fruitful the recent summit between president with nato ambassadors and sochi broke no consensus on missile defense experts say the issue will remain a thorn in the side for both will score in washington at least until next year when the next nato russia council meeting will be held in chicago by the construction of the radio facility in the who would most likely be in full swing let's see reporting from davis and bucharest in romania. we can lease founder julian assange

continues his fight against extradition at the high court in london sweden wants to question the world's most famous whistleblower over sexual assault allegations but he supporters fear extradition to the scandinavian country will open a way for the u.s. to get its hands on him is laura amatus covering the trial from outside the court building. today is the second day of was expected to be a cheery day hearing a cold feet appeal of jude and a song say but whether he's to be extradited to sweden we're expecting wednesday to be given a bit to have it in on the hall full of the swedish prosecutor's office since yesterday was given a bit to. defense i thought left the court last night completely tight lipped he didn't wave to any of his supporters who was standing outside the court he just walked away which must be a direct instruction from his new legal team that he has spies especially to deal with a steering a new legal team seem to taken on

a new strategy that much more conciliatory about this case a much more concerned with the european tour and specifically the european arrest warrants under which students request to be extradited has been requested the legal team auguring that the european arrest warrant is invalid because the discrepancy essentially between the allegations that have been made and the testimonies over the two alleged victims that a full count to be considered is ranging from coercion of rights up to break and the defense team has said that there is nothing in the victim's statement that amounts to that and that no option evidence so a lack of consent in those statements three of the poor allegations they say wouldn't even amounts to crimes in the u.k. so it's very much the approach that that taking hold they they are drawing attention to the fact that us almost has not been charged in sweden that he's wanted them maybe for questioning and they're saying has the prosecution started

has he actually been accused of anything and if you know it's that the european arrest warrant is in ballots we may be able to expect a verdict at the end of wednesday but we may know and the judge may refer the decision to another day he may put his often good decision a few days or even a few weeks time we're hearing where i am is reporting there can find more from our website including the latest news blog. odds and expert analysis of some of the stories in line for you quote how a world famous fast food chain turned into a grocery store officially with us adults in russia serves up a smart move to save itself supersized tax bill. also third time lucky a russian rocket finally give six american satellites a lift into orbit after two days of technical delays this and more. worlds to fastest growing economies india and china appear to have reached an economic faceoff the giants have huge mutual export amounts but it's mostly wrong

materials on india's part while china sells manufactured goods the and even trade is putting new delhi at a growing disadvantage explains. it's dragon versus tiger in the battle for asian supremacy india and china are two of the fastest growing economies with the world's largest population vying for power and prestige in asia and beyond where india led the way and i t in back office is china race to head in mobilizing its masses onto the factory floor fuelling a huge trade deficit and a reality india is forced to accept is normal is meant for to hobble. all the. moving. source of the. new things that india opposed world class or use in nuclear programs yet struggles to create every day jobs making every day good something this cotton tycoon knows

all too well it's cheaper for him to export to china to get the job done than like india buy it back then we make a profit of ten percent more in the international market than the domestic market ironically it's indian efficiency that's part of the problem with supply rapidly outpacing domestic demand. if you don't export in the cotton prices in india will crush and farmers will suffer as they will get even the original price this will increase the quantity of cotton and even the indian government is encouraging the export of course and can the cotton fields of india was the heart of the indian chinese trade relationship more than seventy percent of the exports from india to china are wrong materials like cotton however ninety eight percent of the exports in china to india are manufactured goods if india is selling well then why should it matter well having a twenty billion dollar gap with your next door neighbor puts power in their hands

and makes jobs and savings dry up at home and economists know that only by sewing up a successful manufacturing sector will india's large skilled workforce be soaked up but it's a blind spot leading to blind faith. we are different and we should focus on different models and the can do the growing. best of luck to save the. competition the. growing and growing. growing in a different world and i've seen future indian traders seem satisfied to go because the set up means the mind keeps rolling in. the benefits in exporting is that we get a bigger volume of cotton and we also get paid on time but new delhi is worried knowing it has to cut its cloth before its economic run of luck is sewn up. there are tea in door india. the scandal surrounding worker murdoch's media empire has gone

international after us there is call for their own probe into the news corp company it follows allegations that some of maria's newspapers attempted to bribe new york police and for access to the call records of nine eleven victims in britain the outrageous terror an explosive as details of the sheer scope of the hacking from royalty to murder victims began to set in richard at is editor of the day online news service but the scandal will grow to threaten murdoch's very hold on his entire media empire. where this does become a question for national security is the idea that police a selling private phone numbers and private contact details of people like the royal family and the prime minister obviously is not necessarily the same to sell these things to a newspaper as it would be to sell them to a terrorist organization but if you do you may be able to do the other so it's very serious the whole edifice of news international is deeply intertwined with the downing street machine all that has yet to come out and will cause

a lot more headaches but i think what people are. expecting is for the scandal to go up through the chief executive of news international to james murdoch and james murdoch himself many people say should step down whether he's for. this escape without serious damage is also full and i don't think he's going to retire or leave the helm of the company. now let's take a look at some other stories from around the world the struggling euro has been struck in other well after movies one of the big three credit rating agencies downgraded islands dad to junk status the move is a warning to investors to steer clear of bailed out economy verges on the brink of another crisis the same agency caused a political and economic firestorm last week when he did the same the portugal's death rate and also prodded e.u. finance ministers to bow out to levy more regulation on credit rating agencies.

french lawmakers to vote in favor of continuing country's military operation in libya the decision was supported by the majority of the lower house of parliament meanwhile french officials claim colonel gadhafi is representatives told them the libyan leader is ready to discuss rendering power. telephones biggest achievements in ten years that's what the group called the assassination of the have brother of the afghan president karzai head of the kind of our province of all the region on the border with pakistan garamond who back in two thousand and eight was held by the taliban for forty five days says the killing leaves washington was no one to rely on when it comes to securing the region. while the cars i was not just the governor or the shadow governor of kandahar he was the most powerful and the most popular person throughout all of southern afghanistan this shows that right now with the canadian troops pulling out and with the u.s.

trying to you know focus on eastern afghanistan feeling that they have controlled the south there is now a vacuum who is in power who can the west rely upon. the taliban have claimed responsibility for this but it's not clear that the taliban are responsible they could very easily be a power struggle i've also heard and others have reported that he was responsible for perhaps starting to bring the. and together with the united states to negotiate therefore someone would have had a reason perhaps pakistan perhaps the taliban to stop this we don't know yet who is responsible because they killed the person who had all the information. there was independent journalist and author gerry van dyke there tamad why her desire was often accused of lying down of an end of ghana stance illegal drugs straight ahead of russia's federal drug control service i think there are even also

is a decade of military failures of the coalition forces in the country aren't helping what's his full interview in around ten minutes time but here's a quick preview. this september will see the tenth anniversary of that interference it's longer than world war two but the situation in afghanistan hasn't improved which is it's become even worse and even senior officials like general petraeus for example has come out of military operation in afghanistan to a sense of the number of armed clashes there increases year after year and in fact the number of arms clashes over the past ten years has increased more than a hundred times but i would say we have the assigned tasks been achieved because we see that for security in afghanistan it has only got worse and it's said that our drug production cannot be fought because it damages the security situation so it's a kind of closed circle. last time now take a look at what's happening in the world of business dimitris with us here in the

studio. next very mellow warm welcome to business artsy switzerland is one of the top tell investors in russia and countries trade is only getting stronger leaders of the two countries are meeting today it is all business the post free trade agreements and the inauguration of the wholesome cement in the in moscow because of what the swiss economic minister to find out what's next in terms of projects. for. production it's an investment of about five hundred million swiss banks with. very successful. companies very much interested in the p.c. played being developed in. solar pro-trade around the pool championship.

in particular i have the president of him plainly a swiss construction company recently and he mentioned i look for some piece of cake around the stadium infrastructure in sochi. well aris may sell stakes in seven companies to russia after accepting a bailout for its crisis and economy has been clear gas pipeline companies and to refineries russian technologies corporation and state run gazprom are known those interested in the assets and then received the nate hundred million dollar bailout last month and the cash strapped economy went through its currency reserves. european commission has removed quotas for potash coming from russia and belarus the e.u. says the restrictive tariff said twenty years ago no longer relevant amid growing fertilizer prices russia's current world's largest producer by output currently meets around thirteen percent of europe's amount. u.s.

problem of energy is said to award a seven hundred thirty million dollar loan to the american units of the russian steel manufacturers of a start funds will go to upgrade the michigan factory and surprise us automakers like general motors ford and chrysler the company specializes in high technology steel that is lighter and safer than conventional of terms of the markets now and the world prices are looking for direction very much all session long a positive now continuing their line as increasing u.s. food supplies and crisis in europe may hold demand for raw materials gains are limited and therefore light sweet brands are adding no more than thirty cents across asian markets are positive of the data show china's g.d.p. expanded of faster than expected pace on property sachs gained as a result of china overseas land investments one of the top stocks and in japan stocks are also on the rise with a stronger yen dampening sentiment. european markets to get kicked off in the black

with gains are limited after a downgrade of ireland by moody's investors service sovereign debt worries in focus burbery group is up four and a half percent in london making a top gainer as the luxury goods maker reported revenues up thirty percent in the first we've heard. from moscow markets have been trading for an hour. we apologize for this technical glitch hopefully we'll be able to bring you those figures in just a second betty are the r.t.s. up half a percent my six a quarter of a percent this wednesday so get some of the individual movers if we can of course energy shares weaker than the market. does down by point one percent we're all kali's up one half percent after that lifting of potage quotes by the e.u. and coal miners pascoe's continuing its rally it's up two and a half percent as interested in buying a stake in. gold is setting new record highs close yet another record high in choosing investors are running for safe haven stocks with

a debt crisis spreading across europe seen jacobson from saxo bank believes the strength in the precious metal will continue until the e.u.'s politicians find a workable solution coal is now the only currency even though ironically it's not really a currency that is validating your your long term investment criteria is in the same said this is a currency that cannot be devalued by printing of money i think the reason why gold is going out right now is that everyone seems to sense that the political solution once again becomes throwing more dead at a better issue we need to change their spirity that will probably take some pressure off the rescreening ball but gold is going up today tomorrow and for the next week as long as the politician play this game of hide and see and no decision making. business i will be back in around fifteen minutes time with an update marines next will have.

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